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Preferred term
joint attention and social cognition
Definition
- This entry explains what the capacity for joint attention involves and reviews the main theories about its role in social cognition, as well as theories about its development and mechanism, showing its psychological and philosophical underpinnings. Joint attention is the capacity enjoyed by humans and, on some accounts, nonhuman primates to attend to objects in their environment together with others. [Source: Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences; Joint Attention and Social Cognition]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/joint_attention_and_social_cognition
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